On Jan 13, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
I realize that the proposal isn't flushed out, but a question nevertheless.
The proposal apparently is for feeds to contain other feeds by containment. My question is whether it would make sense to also support feeds containing other feeds by reference, perhaps via a link element or via a src= attribute (analogous to content/@src defined in 5.12.2).
Yes, I was thinking the same would apply to entry, would it not?
A use case can be found here:
http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/01/13/feed_playlists_versus_feed_urls
Also, the Nature feed of feeds that has been referenced a couple times.
The only additional requirement I can see is that it might make sense to have a separate mime type for feeds which only reference other feeds, and feeds which contain content.
Hmm, my employer is fond of saying "everything is content" -- feeds are just another name for collections, and most systems agree that collections create an association between members which is content in itself.
....Roy
